John Cornyn

WOMELSDORF — Lehigh Valley Congressman Charlie Dent and two other eastern Pennsylvania lawmakers toured a Berks County temporary shelter for unaccompanied children from Central America on Tuesday and said the children are in good spirits but have nightmares of their traumatic journeys. The eight children housed at Bethany Children's Home — a handful of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who have crossed the border illegally — were being served lunch as Dent and fellow Republican Reps. Jim Gerlach and Patrick Meehan toured part of the Christian ministry's grounds. "Their spirits are really good," Gerlach said. "We were told by the...

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